Translation Guide

There are quite a few word plays which origins aren't clear for people from different backgrounds / culture / fandoms. So here are a few notes where they are coming from which may serve as a hint. Also includes the word heritages of ores and such.

As you might notice I am a big music & meme fan.

{
  "advancements.spectrum.break_cracked_dragonbone.title": "The Dragon lies Bleeding" // references a song with the same title by Hammerfall
"advancements.spectrum.break_decayed_bedrock.title": "Groundbreaking"
  "advancements.spectrum.build_spirit_instiller_structure.title": "The Will of the Wisps", // References the Ori game by the same name by Moon Studios
  "advancements.spectrum.carry_too_many_heavy_gravity_blocks.title": "Encumbrance? We ignored that", // Nudge to classical tabletop RPGs that have rules for encumbrance/carrying too much stuff, that are rarely respected
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_all_basic_pigments_besides_brown.title": "Brown is weird", // References a populat youtube video by the channel Tech Connections (linked in the guidebook)
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_all_shooting_star_variants.title": "Star Child", // A fairy tale by Oscar Wilde
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_grayscale_pigments.title": "Four shades of Gray", // The book "50 Shades of Grey" (don't read that, it's awful)
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_bismuth.title": "50 Shades of Everything", // The book "50 Shades of Grey" (don't read that, it's awful)
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_enough_hints.title": "Blue's Clues", // References the children's TV show with the same name
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_hover_block.title": "Unstoppable Force vs. Self", // Nudge to the thought experiment "unstoppable force vs. immovable object"
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_mermaids_gem.title": "What grows deep under the Sea?", // Reference to the intro of Spongebob Squarepants
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_paltaeria.title": "Watch it fly by", // Line from the song "In the End" by Linkin Park
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_shimmerstone.title": "More than meets the Eye", // a well-known English idiom meaning that a situation, person, or object has hidden qualities, complexities, or background details that are not immediately obvious.
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_star_fragment.title": "Starry Skies", // References the mod "Starry Skies" by Dafuqs (kek)
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_storm_stone.title": "Thunderstruck", // A song by AC/DC
  "advancements.spectrum.collect_wither_head_using_treasure_hunter.title": "A Withious Cycle", // Wordplay on "a vicious cycle", a self-reinforcing, negative feedback loop where one problem causes a consequence that makes the original problem worse
  "advancements.spectrum.craft_cmy_pedestal.title": "CMY ON", // Reference to a meme template with "RGB OFF / RGB ON"
  "advancements.spectrum.craft_colored_sapling.title": "Botanian Rhapsody", // Song "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
  "advancements.spectrum.create_huge_slime.title": "Huge Chungus", // the meme "Big Chungus"
  "advancements.spectrum.create_onyx_shard.title": "Back in Black", // Song by AD/DC
  "advancements.spectrum.grow_azurite_in_crystallarieum.title": "A Dream come Blue", // "A dream come true"
  "advancements.spectrum.create_spectral_shard.title": "Somewhere over the Rainbow", // Song by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
  "advancements.spectrum.dark_radiance_staff.title": "Whoa! This is Worthless", // The meme template "Whoa! This Is Worthless"
  "advancements.spectrum.eat_each_cookbook_heavy_meal.title": "The Gourmand", // A chubby Rainworld character
  "advancements.spectrum.enchant_seven_league_boots.title": "Hell for Leather", // An english saying
  "advancements.spectrum.equip_neat_ring.title": "Neat", // is a mod by Vazkii
  "advancements.spectrum.fill_knowledge_gem.title": "I dumped CHA instead", // 
  "advancements.spectrum.fill_knowledge_gem_for_real_this_time.title": "My INT-Mod is +6", // 
  "advancements.spectrum.fill_pigment_palette.title": "So much Room for Activities", // A meme
  "advancements.spectrum.find_excavation_site.title": "Very Boring", // wordplay on boring having two meanings
  "advancements.spectrum.grow_bismuth_in_crystallarieum.title": "A solid Improvement",
  "advancements.spectrum.get_tool_with_inertia_500_blocks_broken.title": "The fastest Pick in the West",
  "advancements.spectrum.grow_bismuth_in_crystallarieum.title": "A solid Improvement",
  "advancements.spectrum.kill_a_mob_with_frenzy3.title": "Dark Passion Play",
  "advancements.spectrum.kill_entity_with_jeopardant_and_half_a_heart.title": "Living on the Edge",
  "advancements.spectrum.manifest_memory.title": "Back Again",
  "advancements.spectrum.plant_ominous_sapling.title": "Let it grow, let it grow!",
  "advancements.spectrum.pluck_blood_orchid_petal.title": "They fear me, they fear me not",
  "advancements.spectrum.put_too_many_low_gravity_blocks_into_animal.title": "I must go, my planet needs me",
  "advancements.spectrum.reached_dd_floor.title": "Bedrock 2: Electric Boogaloo",
  "advancements.spectrum.revive_dead_bush.title": "Revivify", // A Pathfinder healing spell (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/variant-magic-rules/rune-magic/script-list/revivify/)
  "advancements.spectrum.solve_wireless_redstone_preservation_ruin.title": "Remote Connected",
  "advancements.spectrum.start_crafting_time_consuming_pedestal_recipe.title": "Being Paintient",
  "advancements.spectrum.tap_suspicious_brew.title": "Not a Cow's Udder Juice", // "Milk"
  "advancements.spectrum.use_perturbed_eye.title": "I like to move it, move it",
  "advancements.spectrum.become_enlightened.title": "The Professional Catposter", // This was a 
  "advancements.spectrum.failed_creating_empty_or_blacklisted_spawner.title": "This Ain't It, Chief",

  "block.spectrum.azurite_ore": "Azurite Ore", // Azure, like the color
  "block.spectrum.bottomless_bundle": "Bottomless Bundle",
  "block.spectrum.cyan_spirit_sallow_vines_body": "Cyan Spirit Sallow Vines",
  "block.spectrum.deeper_down_portal": "Portal Deeper Down", // The dimension is literally "deeper down", so this is what the player references it as
  "block.spectrum.dike_gate": "Dike Gate",
  "block.spectrum.neolith_block": "Block of Neolith",
  "block.spectrum.paltaeria_ore": "Paltaeria Ore",
  "block.spectrum.preservation_stone": "Preservation Stone",
  "block.spectrum.quitoxic_reeds": "Quitoxic Reeds",
  "block.spectrum.radiating_ender": "Radiating Ender",
  "block.spectrum.shimmel": "Shimmel",
  "block.spectrum.stratine_ore": "Stratine Ore",
  "entity.spectrum.bident": "Bident", // It's a Trident with two (bi) pokers
  "item.spectrum.blackest_lotus": "Blackest Lotus",
  "item.spectrum.fetchling_helmet": "Fetchling Helmet",
  "item.spectrum.freigeist": "Freigeist",
  "item.spectrum.le_fishe_au_chocolat": "Le Fishe au Chocolat",
  "item.spectrum.lucky_roll": "Lucky Roll",
  "item.spectrum.myceylon": "Myceylon",
  "item.spectrum.neat_ring": "A Neat Ring",
  "item.spectrum.neat_ring.tooltip": "§7§oIt's neat",
  "item.spectrum.neolith": "Neolith",
  "item.spectrum.oread_boots": "Oread Boots",
  "item.spectrum.paltaeria_gem": "Paltaeria Gem",
  "item.spectrum.stratine_fragments": "Stratine Fragments",
  "item.spectrum.stratine_gem": "Stratine Gem",
  "item.spectrum.surstromming": "Surstromming",
  "item.spectrum.seven_league_boots": "Seven-League Boots",
  "item.spectrum.sylph_leggings": "Sylph Leggings",
  "block.spectrum.vantaclast": "Vantaclast",
  "block.spectrum.daydreamer": "Daydreamer",



paltaeria:  Pale + Aerial (air-y)
stratine
noxwood; the word "nox" is the Latin word for night (nox, nocis), hence night-wood
quitoxic; entirely made up, minus the 'toxic' referencing its outlandish appearance
Downstone is named after Dawnstone, a metal prominent in all kinds of fandoms (german pythology, pokemon, warhammer, dragon age, ...), but phrased as "down", since, well, it generates in the deeper down. De-mystifying what people see as a very rare stone by prepending it with something so generic as "stone" seemed funny and fitting for me for a kinda mythical blocks that is literally everywhere in the DD. 
}